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Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

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Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: Earth VC backs UK-based Sparxell, Grab’s acquisition of Trans-cab falls through, five China deals, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Earth VC backs UK-based Sparxell, Grab’s acquisition of Trans-cab falls through, five China deals, and more

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Tang Jing, manager of Li Auto’s flagship product line, asserts that the Chinese automaker stays competitive by prioritizing user value.

Is Li Auto’s commitment to maximizing user value its moat? | KrASIA

Is Li Auto’s commitment to maximizing user value its moat?

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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Young entrepreneurs are using arcade games to grab low-rent opportunities.

Hong Kong's rise of the claw machines reflects property fall | KrASIA

Hong Kong&#8217;s rise of the claw machines reflects property fall

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Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. 

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Paytm is taking a leaf out of Alibaba's playbook.

Alibaba-backed Paytm to open its platform for advertisers in competition for Indian online ad spending | KrASIA

Alibaba-backed Paytm to open its platform for advertisers in competition for Indian online ad spending

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Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

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Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

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Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

Paytm competes with the likes of Walmart-owned PhonePe, Google Pay, and Amazon Pay.

Alibaba-backed payment company Paytm to raise USD 2 billion | KrASIA

Alibaba-backed payment company Paytm to raise USD 2 billion

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Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.  It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

Global giants like Alibaba, Amazon, Google, and Facebook are keeping a close watch on Indian digital payments opportunity, which is very much untapped since half of the Indians are yet to come online.

India’s digital payment market is getting more competitive with PhonePe spin-off | KrASIA

India’s digital payment market is getting more competitive with PhonePe spin-off

Paytm is pushing the envelope as it's in talks to pick 10% stake in Yes Bank

Alibaba-backed Paytm sees net loss surge by 163% in FY 2019 | KrASIA

Alibaba-backed Paytm sees net loss surge by 163% in FY 2019

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There might be a cap on each company's share of total UPI transactions.

India gets jittery as non-banking companies dominate payment transactions | KrASIA

India gets jittery as non-banking companies dominate payment transactions

Paytm also expanded its offering in ed-tech space with education loans and educations specific insurance products.

Alibaba’s Indian bet Paytm enters healthcare space in diversification efforts | KrASIA

Alibaba’s Indian bet Paytm enters healthcare space in diversification efforts

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

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India's mobile gaming is expected to reach USD 1.1 billion by 2020.

Alibaba and Paytm backed gaming venture to raise USD 25 million as Indian mobile gaming market grows | KrASIA

Alibaba and Paytm backed gaming venture to raise USD 25 million as Indian mobile gaming market grows

The move comes in the wake of regulatory concerns over its legitimacy in credit services.